The Vault Under Glasswater Falls
adventure◐ TeenI grabbed the door handle and pulled. It groaned open an inch, then stuck. Cold air hissed out, smelling of metal and old dust. "It's not even locked," I said. Marco and Priya leaned in beside me and we heaved together. The door swung wide into the dark.
The room was empty except for muddy bootprints leading to the far wall. Whoever came before us hadn't left through this door. "They went somewhere," Priya said, following the prints. They stopped at a blank stone wall—a dead end. Or so it looked. She pressed it, and the wall shifted.
What happens next?
2 ways forwardBehind the wall was a tiny chamber, and inside it, the real prize: a strongbox stuffed with gold and a deed to the whole mine. Priya grinned. "Finders keepers." We hauled it out, retraced our steps, and climbed back into the daylight rich and grinning, the falls still roaring behind us.